Monday, 7 December 2009
Choosing a Positive Attitude For Good Health
Good health is difficult to define, but it is certainly more than just the absence of disease. It reflects, rather, a combination of mental, social, physical and spiritual well-being, ALL of which is strongly influenced by lifestyle.
Are YOU tired of feeling sick, sick and tired of being sick, or always feeling miserable and depressed? Are you tired of being overweight? Is your self esteem at an all-time low? If you answered YES to any of the questions, then take heart! It is no secret that a good, POSITIVE attitude can change any situation, no matter how desperate.
Remember that the benefits of keeping a positive outlook on life are many. Research has shown that positive thinking has been known to boost the immune system, which in turn increases the body's ability to fight off diseases and infections. Develop a PASSION for living an all-round healthy lifestyle. Never accept mediocrity when it comes to your health! Always be pro-active.
If being overweight is getting you down, make a plan to get your WEIGHT down. Set attainable goals...take it slow... don't get despondent! You didn't gain the weight overnight, and nor will you lose it overnight. Find out how to WAKE UP your metabolism, and light the natural fire in your body! Pay attention to regular exercise. Create a new life-culture, based on a firm foundation of healthy eating habits. Consider that you have nothing to lose, except excess, unwelcome...FAT! What you will GAIN is more self-confidence and better all-round health.
The word "diet" is derived from the Greek "diata" which means "way of life." So it stands to reason that if you change your diet, you WILL change your life!
NOW is the time to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional health. Opt for natural remedies wherever possible. Make it your business to find out which supplements are best suited for you.
Don't let any disease sneak up on you! Get good, sound nutritional advice. Many ailments respond well to natural remedies. But if you are in any doubt about anything, always consult a Qualified Health Practioner.
Hayley James, nutritionist and lifecoach, markets her business on the internet, promoting healthy, complementary lifestyle options. For information on the OPTIMAL-HEALTHYLIFE-CLUB, sign on to her website http://www.underthesunmarketing.co.za or mail Hayley at info@underthesunmarketing.co.za
Are YOU tired of feeling sick, sick and tired of being sick, or always feeling miserable and depressed? Are you tired of being overweight? Is your self esteem at an all-time low? If you answered YES to any of the questions, then take heart! It is no secret that a good, POSITIVE attitude can change any situation, no matter how desperate.
Remember that the benefits of keeping a positive outlook on life are many. Research has shown that positive thinking has been known to boost the immune system, which in turn increases the body's ability to fight off diseases and infections. Develop a PASSION for living an all-round healthy lifestyle. Never accept mediocrity when it comes to your health! Always be pro-active.
If being overweight is getting you down, make a plan to get your WEIGHT down. Set attainable goals...take it slow... don't get despondent! You didn't gain the weight overnight, and nor will you lose it overnight. Find out how to WAKE UP your metabolism, and light the natural fire in your body! Pay attention to regular exercise. Create a new life-culture, based on a firm foundation of healthy eating habits. Consider that you have nothing to lose, except excess, unwelcome...FAT! What you will GAIN is more self-confidence and better all-round health.
The word "diet" is derived from the Greek "diata" which means "way of life." So it stands to reason that if you change your diet, you WILL change your life!
NOW is the time to take responsibility for your own physical and emotional health. Opt for natural remedies wherever possible. Make it your business to find out which supplements are best suited for you.
Don't let any disease sneak up on you! Get good, sound nutritional advice. Many ailments respond well to natural remedies. But if you are in any doubt about anything, always consult a Qualified Health Practioner.
Hayley James, nutritionist and lifecoach, markets her business on the internet, promoting healthy, complementary lifestyle options. For information on the OPTIMAL-HEALTHYLIFE-CLUB, sign on to her website http://www.underthesunmarketing.co.za or mail Hayley at info@underthesunmarketing.co.za
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Health Solutions - Heart Health - Your Heart is More Than a Pump, it is Also a Brain!
Did you know that opening your heart to heal your emotions, thoughts and physical body can help you have a healthy heart? Focusing on heart disease provides a model for addressing the lifestyle link in all the major killer diseases, such as cancer (prostate, breast, colon and lung being the most common), arthritis, HIV/Aids, diabetes and other degenerative diseases. The heart-lifestyle link is best understood and well researched, at this point in time, and the heart is after all, the place where the body, the mind, emotions and soul converge.
Up to fairly recently, heart disease was regarded as a male health challenge. This is no longer so. As more and more research also focus on women and their hearts, it has become alarmingly clear that women over 45 years of age, especially in the peri- and post menopausal period, have the same, if not higher, risk for heart disease as men.
A positive family history and symptoms like shortness of breath, fatigue, unproductive chronic cough, blue or painful extremities, extreme sensitivity to cold, leg ulcers, swelling of the ankles, pain over the chest, left arm or up the neck at rest or during exertion, have to be thoroughly evaluated with a complete physical examination, basic blood tests and an exertion or stress electrocardiogram. A thorough heart evaluation should form part of everybody's yearly preventative medical examination, whether or not you have symptoms or a positive history. The natural and wellness treatment options are aimed at improving energy metabolism inside the heart's cells, as well as blood supply to the heart, while simultaneously facilitating the release and surrender of blocked emotional and mental energy.
As one patient who participated in the world renowned Heart Disease Reversal Programme lead by physician, Dr Dean Ornish, said: 'Even if the tests showed my arteries hadn't opened up (which they did!), I would still follow this program, because I've opened up!'
Hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol and cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels) disease risk factors
Major well-known risk factors for cardiovascular disease:
Smoking
Elevated cholesterol levels
High blood pressure
Diabetes
Physical inactivity
High stress / distress
Positive family history
Other very important, lesser known risk factors:
Low antioxidant status
Low levels of essential fatty acids
Low levels of magnesium and potassium
Increased platelet aggregation (stickiness)
Increased fibrinogen formation
Elevated levels of homocystein
Stress associated with the type A personality, worry, anxiety
Hostility
Heart facts
Research shows that the heart does have an effect on our health and happiness:
- If, for instance, you focus on or visualise feelings of love, peace and gratitude, your breathing and heart rate slow down, and become synchronised and harmonious.
- Meditation has a similar effect.
Feelings of love also have a positive influence on the immune system, hormones and cognitive brain function.
Heart research
More and more research studies show the link between the heart, the emotions, stress and the fact that the heart also functions as brain:
'The abyss between the emotions and physiology narrowed in 2005 as researchers discovered that emotional stress can indeed, produce symptoms of a heart attack. Although the research team concluded that the mechanism remains unknown regarding reversible left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by emotional stress, it was suggested that stress hormones might temporarily overwhelm heart cells. Nicknamed the 'Broken Heart Syndrome', the cause might best be described as 'adrenalin poisoning'.
- Wittstein, L. Neurohumoral Features of Myocardial Stunning Due to Sudden Emotional Stress. New England Journal of Medicine. 352(6): 539-548, 2005
Heart as brain (information published in 2006/2007):
The heart has receptor sites for, and manufacture, peptides that are identical to the neurotransmitter message carrier molecules inside the brain. It is now crystal clear that the heart is a very important endocrine gland, making and releasing the major hormone, ANF (atrial natriuretic factor). ANF has a profound effect on the brain's limbic structure and function. The limbic system is the seat of the emotions and stress survival reaction, and is also called the emotional brain. The limbic system includes the hippocampus where the memory, learning and control centres for the entire hormonal system resides. 60-65% of heart cells are neurons (nervous system cells), and not muscle cells as previously believed. These neurons are identical to brain neurons. 50% of the heart neuron cells translate information from the whole body to keep it functioning as a harmonious whole. The other 50% have a direct, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain inside the head, with a 24/7 heart-brain-heart dialogue we are completely unconscious of. The heart is a powerful electromagnetic generator that creates an electromagnetic field that encompasses body and extends 3-5 meters away from it. One can actually take an ECG (electro cardiogram) reading 1 meter away from the body, with no wires attached! This electromagnetic field has a profound effect on the brain, furnishing radio wave pattern from which the brain draws material to create an internal experience of the world. Ultimately everything in our lives depends on our emotional (i.e. feeling) response to events.
Stress accelerates your heart rate through secretion of the adrenal stress hormones adrenalin, noradrenalin and the long term stress hormone cortisol. Stress is initially experienced as emotions or feelings within the limbic system of the brain. ANF influences not only the heart muscle contraction, pressure in blood vessels and kidneys, but also the mood-influencing adrenal glands, as well as the brain. In the brain, parasympathetic or sympathetic impulses coming from the heart help trigger the onset of either calming or excitatory thoughts and emotions. Research also shows that by focusing on, or visualising feelings of love, peace and gratitude, breathing and heart rate slow down, and become synchronised and harmonious. Regular meditation practice has a similar effect. In emotionally healthy people, there appears to be a strong tendency for the heart and brain to have a smoothly functioning dialogue, and to remain synchronised, or entrained. Entrainment reflects a positive frame of mind, but also helps create it, in part by enhancing the balance of the autonomic nervous system (parasympathetic / relaxing, and sympathetic / excitatory system). The body, clearly, can help heal the mind. But what gets this healing process started? The mind itself! Your mind, when focused on appreciation, love and peace, has a limitless power to trigger physical and emotional healing.
According to Candace Pert in her new book 'Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d', neural nests that form pathways after repeated firing in specific patterns (compare this to wild animals treading the same pathway to the water every single day), form memory not only in the brain, but also in the heart, spinal cord, immune system - actually all systems linked by autonomic ganglia and part of the psychosomatic network. This information network comprises the firing between neurons in the nervous system (only 2% of the information system), the link of ligands (peptides, hormones, neurotransmitters) to their receptors (98% of the information system), and the matrix, or intricate spider web of collagen fibres that link throughout the bodymind, and extending into every single cell. According to James Oschman in his book 'Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis', the living matrix can be compared to a liquid crystal and it is a physical entity explaining how energy healing works, and also instantaneous, or miraculous healing. Through instant transmission along the matrix, new molecules of emotion can bind to receptors, with an immediate healing effect. On the surface, this is the benefit of repeating positive affirmations and on a deeper, spiritual level, the epiphany or transcendent moment the mystics talk about, of finally being able to let go and release old, buried emotions of past core emotional trauma, from the cells of your body, especially the heart, and creating new pathways of health and wellbeing, new 'elsewheres of thought' as Ramhta (JC Knight) said in the movie 'What the Bleep do we Know?!..'.
Heartfelt feelings
We often say: my heart's not in it anymore; my heart is sore; my heart is breaking. This is much more literal than we thought! In all cultures and religions, the experience of peace, love, healing and harmony are seated in the heart and thymus (responsible for immunity) region in the chest. Feelings of love also have a positive influence on the immune system, hormones and cognitive brain function. In his book, 'Love & Survival', Dr Dean Ornish says that the most important contributing factor to heart health, is the love and intimacy found in close relationships. Research has shown that people in Japan and France (both countries with low heart disease risk) have very close family and friendship links, signifying the perception they have of having a support system in times of trouble. Lack of love and intimacy has been shown to be the most consistent predictor of heart disease! This is a more consistent factor than genetics and risk factors such as obesity, too little exercise, high LDL-cholesterol, poor nutrition and smoking.
Even some of the risk factors can be attributable to lack of social interaction and feeling isolated and alone! People smoke, drink, or overeat as an ineffective, harmful way of stilling the mind from the stressful monkey chatter, to try and prevent the emotions from surfacing.
Other feelings associated with the heart:
•Issues with unconditional love
•Heart not in it anymore: work & relationships
•Perfectionist, driven, workaholic - type A behaviour
•Harshly judgmental of self and others
•Difficulty expressing emotions or feelings
•Denying feelings
•Difficult relationships - cannot cope with needs of others
•Self control issues - the inner drive to always be in control of situations
•Fear of failure - empathy with yourself and others
All these are stressors or triggers for the stress reaction where the heart and cardiovascular system are constantly put in red alert to react in the classical stress response: fight or flight!
This does NOT imply that you CAUSE your disease on purpose! The process occurs on a deeply unconscious level in cell memories. You can however, become consciously aware of these issues and through process work, help your inner self to heal, leading to personal power and inner peace.
Written by Dr Arien van der Merwe, medical doctor, specialist corporate health & wellness service provider and author of Stress Solutions, 'Relax & Unwind' relaxation CD, Health & Happiness and Training manuals on Wellness/Peer Education, Stress Management and Workplace Wellness.
For more info & to order: http://www.HealthStressWellness.com
Up to fairly recently, heart disease was regarded as a male health challenge. This is no longer so. As more and more research also focus on women and their hearts, it has become alarmingly clear that women over 45 years of age, especially in the peri- and post menopausal period, have the same, if not higher, risk for heart disease as men.
A positive family history and symptoms like shortness of breath, fatigue, unproductive chronic cough, blue or painful extremities, extreme sensitivity to cold, leg ulcers, swelling of the ankles, pain over the chest, left arm or up the neck at rest or during exertion, have to be thoroughly evaluated with a complete physical examination, basic blood tests and an exertion or stress electrocardiogram. A thorough heart evaluation should form part of everybody's yearly preventative medical examination, whether or not you have symptoms or a positive history. The natural and wellness treatment options are aimed at improving energy metabolism inside the heart's cells, as well as blood supply to the heart, while simultaneously facilitating the release and surrender of blocked emotional and mental energy.
As one patient who participated in the world renowned Heart Disease Reversal Programme lead by physician, Dr Dean Ornish, said: 'Even if the tests showed my arteries hadn't opened up (which they did!), I would still follow this program, because I've opened up!'
Hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol and cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels) disease risk factors
Major well-known risk factors for cardiovascular disease:
Smoking
Elevated cholesterol levels
High blood pressure
Diabetes
Physical inactivity
High stress / distress
Positive family history
Other very important, lesser known risk factors:
Low antioxidant status
Low levels of essential fatty acids
Low levels of magnesium and potassium
Increased platelet aggregation (stickiness)
Increased fibrinogen formation
Elevated levels of homocystein
Stress associated with the type A personality, worry, anxiety
Hostility
Heart facts
Research shows that the heart does have an effect on our health and happiness:
- If, for instance, you focus on or visualise feelings of love, peace and gratitude, your breathing and heart rate slow down, and become synchronised and harmonious.
- Meditation has a similar effect.
Feelings of love also have a positive influence on the immune system, hormones and cognitive brain function.
Heart research
More and more research studies show the link between the heart, the emotions, stress and the fact that the heart also functions as brain:
'The abyss between the emotions and physiology narrowed in 2005 as researchers discovered that emotional stress can indeed, produce symptoms of a heart attack. Although the research team concluded that the mechanism remains unknown regarding reversible left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by emotional stress, it was suggested that stress hormones might temporarily overwhelm heart cells. Nicknamed the 'Broken Heart Syndrome', the cause might best be described as 'adrenalin poisoning'.
- Wittstein, L. Neurohumoral Features of Myocardial Stunning Due to Sudden Emotional Stress. New England Journal of Medicine. 352(6): 539-548, 2005
Heart as brain (information published in 2006/2007):
The heart has receptor sites for, and manufacture, peptides that are identical to the neurotransmitter message carrier molecules inside the brain. It is now crystal clear that the heart is a very important endocrine gland, making and releasing the major hormone, ANF (atrial natriuretic factor). ANF has a profound effect on the brain's limbic structure and function. The limbic system is the seat of the emotions and stress survival reaction, and is also called the emotional brain. The limbic system includes the hippocampus where the memory, learning and control centres for the entire hormonal system resides. 60-65% of heart cells are neurons (nervous system cells), and not muscle cells as previously believed. These neurons are identical to brain neurons. 50% of the heart neuron cells translate information from the whole body to keep it functioning as a harmonious whole. The other 50% have a direct, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain inside the head, with a 24/7 heart-brain-heart dialogue we are completely unconscious of. The heart is a powerful electromagnetic generator that creates an electromagnetic field that encompasses body and extends 3-5 meters away from it. One can actually take an ECG (electro cardiogram) reading 1 meter away from the body, with no wires attached! This electromagnetic field has a profound effect on the brain, furnishing radio wave pattern from which the brain draws material to create an internal experience of the world. Ultimately everything in our lives depends on our emotional (i.e. feeling) response to events.
Stress accelerates your heart rate through secretion of the adrenal stress hormones adrenalin, noradrenalin and the long term stress hormone cortisol. Stress is initially experienced as emotions or feelings within the limbic system of the brain. ANF influences not only the heart muscle contraction, pressure in blood vessels and kidneys, but also the mood-influencing adrenal glands, as well as the brain. In the brain, parasympathetic or sympathetic impulses coming from the heart help trigger the onset of either calming or excitatory thoughts and emotions. Research also shows that by focusing on, or visualising feelings of love, peace and gratitude, breathing and heart rate slow down, and become synchronised and harmonious. Regular meditation practice has a similar effect. In emotionally healthy people, there appears to be a strong tendency for the heart and brain to have a smoothly functioning dialogue, and to remain synchronised, or entrained. Entrainment reflects a positive frame of mind, but also helps create it, in part by enhancing the balance of the autonomic nervous system (parasympathetic / relaxing, and sympathetic / excitatory system). The body, clearly, can help heal the mind. But what gets this healing process started? The mind itself! Your mind, when focused on appreciation, love and peace, has a limitless power to trigger physical and emotional healing.
According to Candace Pert in her new book 'Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d', neural nests that form pathways after repeated firing in specific patterns (compare this to wild animals treading the same pathway to the water every single day), form memory not only in the brain, but also in the heart, spinal cord, immune system - actually all systems linked by autonomic ganglia and part of the psychosomatic network. This information network comprises the firing between neurons in the nervous system (only 2% of the information system), the link of ligands (peptides, hormones, neurotransmitters) to their receptors (98% of the information system), and the matrix, or intricate spider web of collagen fibres that link throughout the bodymind, and extending into every single cell. According to James Oschman in his book 'Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis', the living matrix can be compared to a liquid crystal and it is a physical entity explaining how energy healing works, and also instantaneous, or miraculous healing. Through instant transmission along the matrix, new molecules of emotion can bind to receptors, with an immediate healing effect. On the surface, this is the benefit of repeating positive affirmations and on a deeper, spiritual level, the epiphany or transcendent moment the mystics talk about, of finally being able to let go and release old, buried emotions of past core emotional trauma, from the cells of your body, especially the heart, and creating new pathways of health and wellbeing, new 'elsewheres of thought' as Ramhta (JC Knight) said in the movie 'What the Bleep do we Know?!..'.
Heartfelt feelings
We often say: my heart's not in it anymore; my heart is sore; my heart is breaking. This is much more literal than we thought! In all cultures and religions, the experience of peace, love, healing and harmony are seated in the heart and thymus (responsible for immunity) region in the chest. Feelings of love also have a positive influence on the immune system, hormones and cognitive brain function. In his book, 'Love & Survival', Dr Dean Ornish says that the most important contributing factor to heart health, is the love and intimacy found in close relationships. Research has shown that people in Japan and France (both countries with low heart disease risk) have very close family and friendship links, signifying the perception they have of having a support system in times of trouble. Lack of love and intimacy has been shown to be the most consistent predictor of heart disease! This is a more consistent factor than genetics and risk factors such as obesity, too little exercise, high LDL-cholesterol, poor nutrition and smoking.
Even some of the risk factors can be attributable to lack of social interaction and feeling isolated and alone! People smoke, drink, or overeat as an ineffective, harmful way of stilling the mind from the stressful monkey chatter, to try and prevent the emotions from surfacing.
Other feelings associated with the heart:
•Issues with unconditional love
•Heart not in it anymore: work & relationships
•Perfectionist, driven, workaholic - type A behaviour
•Harshly judgmental of self and others
•Difficulty expressing emotions or feelings
•Denying feelings
•Difficult relationships - cannot cope with needs of others
•Self control issues - the inner drive to always be in control of situations
•Fear of failure - empathy with yourself and others
All these are stressors or triggers for the stress reaction where the heart and cardiovascular system are constantly put in red alert to react in the classical stress response: fight or flight!
This does NOT imply that you CAUSE your disease on purpose! The process occurs on a deeply unconscious level in cell memories. You can however, become consciously aware of these issues and through process work, help your inner self to heal, leading to personal power and inner peace.
Written by Dr Arien van der Merwe, medical doctor, specialist corporate health & wellness service provider and author of Stress Solutions, 'Relax & Unwind' relaxation CD, Health & Happiness and Training manuals on Wellness/Peer Education, Stress Management and Workplace Wellness.
For more info & to order: http://www.HealthStressWellness.com
Need a Helping Hand? Women's Health Supplements Can Help
You are what you eat...
It’s something we’ve heard all our lives, and it’s true. Our health is the end result of the food we eat, the nutrients we take in and how our bodies absorb them.
In order to stay healthy you need to implement some basic dietary rules:
• Maximise your nutrient intake from fresh food (particularly green leafy vegetables, meat, fish and eggs)
• Minimise your loss of nutrients (through too much caffeine and carbonated, fizzy or soft drinks for example)
• Reduce or eliminate the things that are definitely bad for us – fried food and margarine, sugar and refined flour, burned animal fat, cigarettes.
• Perform a moderate amount of exercise – for example about 20 minutes per day to reduce your risk of diseases affecting women including osteoporosis, arthritis and heart disease.
In terms of general health, most scientists now agree that a multi-vitamin (and mineral) supplement is useful for the prevention of chronic disease - this is why women’s health supplements are so important. Recently, even the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article linking the inadequate intake of vitamins to chronic diseases.
Healthy diet - The important thing to realise is that if you don’t start by following the simple dietary advice above, then you’ll be more prone to disease and illness.
The following is a summary of the women’s health supplements which can help with different women’s health challenges.
Breast cancer– womens health supplements – particularly antioxidants such as selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, folic acid and a recently discovered plant chemical found in tomatoes called Lycopene – may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables – these contain natural phytonutrients that are linked to a lower incidence of cancer. Alcohol, smoking, bad fats (found in fried food and margarine and oils when they’re heated), hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and lack of exercise are considered risk factors.
Cancer – same rules as above however there are some additional risk factors associated with other forms of cancer. Womens health supplements should include a full spectrum of 90 essential nutrients - including minerals in a highly absorbable form, amino acids, essential fatty acids and vitamins.
The antioxidant selenium along with antioxidant vitamins A, C and E have demonstrated anti-cancer properties.
Cellulite – cellulite develops when the connective tissues between the fat cell chambers and between the chambers and the skin become thin and weakened and the elastic fibres that give the connective tissue strength are also weakened. Weight gain is one reason for cellulite, but it happens to very slim women too. Reducing the appearance of cellulite is all about improving the circulation of blood to the affected areas, reducing the size of the fat cells and improving the strength of the connective tissue.
Exercise, plenty of water, detoxification (you can try doing a mineral wrap at home – you need wide elastic bandages soaked in warm water with plant colloidal mineral solution, covered by a layer of plastic to help you sweat out the toxins) and womens health supplements such as a good mineral, vitamin and essential fatty acid supplement will assist.
PMS – Premenstrual syndrome - some very significant studies have proven that supplementing with calcium can reduce the symptoms of PMS. Magnesium has also shown to be lacking or very low in women with PMS – a good source of this is chocolate – which may explain the chocolate cravings we sometimes have! (There are other ways to get magnesium, not just by eating chocolate!).
Women’s health supplements for PMS should include these minerals along with Vitamin E, herbs such as Black Cohosh and essential fatty acids.
Menopause – Menopause is a natural stage in a woman’s life where the ovaries gradually stop producing estrogen and progesterone. The symptoms of menopause vary from person to person however it is commonly characterized by hot flashes and night sweats as well as a range of symptoms such as mood swings, fatigue, insomnia and weight gain.
Osteoporosis can develop more rapidly as a result of the loss of estrogen. Womens health supplements particularly with calcium, magnesium and vitamin D can be of help and herbs such as ‘black cohosh’ can help with the night sweats and other symptoms.
A diet high in essential fatty acids, low in saturated fat and the elimination of bad fats, along with plenty of green leafy vegetables, meat, fish, eggs and exercise, will make this a smoother transition.
Fertility and Pregnancy – a great deal of positive research surrounds the affects of taking womens health supplements during pregnancy. Supplementing with Folic acid during pregnancy is now recognized as helping to protect babies from neural tube defects; recent studies also indicate it may help prevent Down’s Syndrome.
Other supplements including selenium have been linked to reduced complications with pregnancy, while taking increased amounts of omega three fish oils may prevent asthma and improve brain development and learning in offspring. During pregnancy you have to take in nutrients for ‘two’ and women frequently suffer from poor nutrition; an example of a mineral deficiency is cravings during pregnancy.
For those considering pregnancy, recent pilot studies have proven the value of nutrient supplements to improve fertility. This can be easily resolved by giving the body what it needs and womens health supplements containing all 90 essential nutrients including Selenium are the best answer.
Varicose Veins – Varicose veins occur when the valves in your veins malfunction and when your veins lose their elasticity. Varicose veins occur mostly in women between the ages of 30 and 70. Hormonal changes during pregnancy, premenstruation and menopause may be a risk factor as female hormones tend to relax the vein walls. Exercise, weight control, elevating your legs periodically, avoiding long periods of sitting cross legged or standing for long periods of time as well as wearing low heels (makes the calves work harder) can help with circulation.
For womens health supplements, colloidal copper in plant derived minerals and certain antioxidant nutrients found in grape seed extract may assist in repairing the elastic fibres of the veins from within.
Heart Disease – affects three times more women than cancer and is the number one cause of death for all women. To reduce your risk of heart disease you need a diet high in fiber, green leafy vegetables and unsaturated fat (fish oil, flax seed oil); also eliminate the bad fats such as fried foods and margarine. Womens health supplements high in antioxidants such as selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, minerals and essential fatty acids along with plenty of exercise and diet will protect the heart and keep you healthy.
High Cholesterol – high cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease and you need to eliminate the ‘bad’ fats from the diet and consume more of the good’ fats. An essential fatty acid supplement rich in omega 3 fish oil is very effective at reducing cholesterol in addition to antioxidant vitamins and highly absorbable plant derived minerals - all found in the 90 Essential Nutrients.
High Blood Pressure - Dietary and lifestyle changes are very important. Eliminate smoking, alcohol, caffeine and sugar. Consume a high fiber diet with plenty of green leafy vegetables and reduce your weight if you are overweight. Supplement with 90 essential nutrients including the plant derived colloidal calcium and other minerals, liquid calcium, CO-Q10 (coenzyme Q-10), essential fatty acids and lecithin. Herbs such as European Hawthorn also help.
Fatigue – womens health supplements should include all 90 essential nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids – this will ensure you have no nutritional deficiencies and will help with fatigue.
Health supplements with chromium can help regulate low blood sugar which can make you feel tired.
Nails – healthy nails are important for a woman’s appearance, but more importantly they are good indicators of a nutritional deficiency. White spots can indicate a zinc deficiency; brittle nails can be a sign of a protein deficiency and ridges in the nails an indicator of calcium or iron deficiency. Womens health supplements including gelatin, liquid minerals, amino acids, vitamins and essential fatty acids found in all the 90 essential nutrients, will assist with repair.
Skin – eliminating fried foods, sugar and bad fats from your diet is as important as good nutrition and plenty of water. Essential fatty acids from a natural source or in womens health supplements are a must. Vitamins and minerals are also important and will assist with a number of conditions such as acne, psoriasis, age spots and dermatitis.
Sports - If you train or exercise frequently and you sweat then you need to supplement with a good liquid mineral and multivitamin product to replace everything you're sweating out. If you don't then you're setting yourself up for serious health problems such as heart disease, joint problems, low energy and chronic aches and pains. You have to replace all those vital minerals you are sweating out while exercising. According to the Centers for Disease Control over 100,000 men, women and children die every year (in the US alone) during and immediately after exercise. Almost without doubt because they never replaced all the minerals, trace minerals, electrolytes and vitamins lost through strenuous activity.
Look for good sports energy drinks that are completely natural and contain a healthy mix of vitamins, minerals, protein, natural sugars, and herbs that will help keep you healthy while you exercise.
Weight Loss - A good weight loss plan involves eliminating bad foods such as refined and processed sugary foods, margarine, fried foods, caffeine and soft (fizzy) drinks. It also involves a good diet with plenty of protein, green leafy vegetables and complex carbohydrates and water. Womens health supplements that have a good source of minerals, vitamins, amino acids and essential fatty acids which ensure you get adequate nutrition and stop you getting the ‘munchies’. An organised and fun exercise program is essential.
Bones and Joints - Bone and joint diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis involve a complex of nutritional deficiencies which can be prevented and reversed if you follow a light exercise plan, implement a healthy diet, eliminate all the bad foods – particularly soft drinks and bad fats (fried foods and margarine especially) and use natural supplements to help maintain and repair your body. Womens health supplements containing all 90 essential nutrients as well as specific bone and joint supplements, such as CM Cream, for natural, rapid and very effective pain relief are fundamental to a return to normal health.
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It’s something we’ve heard all our lives, and it’s true. Our health is the end result of the food we eat, the nutrients we take in and how our bodies absorb them.
In order to stay healthy you need to implement some basic dietary rules:
• Maximise your nutrient intake from fresh food (particularly green leafy vegetables, meat, fish and eggs)
• Minimise your loss of nutrients (through too much caffeine and carbonated, fizzy or soft drinks for example)
• Reduce or eliminate the things that are definitely bad for us – fried food and margarine, sugar and refined flour, burned animal fat, cigarettes.
• Perform a moderate amount of exercise – for example about 20 minutes per day to reduce your risk of diseases affecting women including osteoporosis, arthritis and heart disease.
In terms of general health, most scientists now agree that a multi-vitamin (and mineral) supplement is useful for the prevention of chronic disease - this is why women’s health supplements are so important. Recently, even the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article linking the inadequate intake of vitamins to chronic diseases.
Healthy diet - The important thing to realise is that if you don’t start by following the simple dietary advice above, then you’ll be more prone to disease and illness.
The following is a summary of the women’s health supplements which can help with different women’s health challenges.
Breast cancer– womens health supplements – particularly antioxidants such as selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, folic acid and a recently discovered plant chemical found in tomatoes called Lycopene – may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Eat plenty of green leafy vegetables – these contain natural phytonutrients that are linked to a lower incidence of cancer. Alcohol, smoking, bad fats (found in fried food and margarine and oils when they’re heated), hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and lack of exercise are considered risk factors.
Cancer – same rules as above however there are some additional risk factors associated with other forms of cancer. Womens health supplements should include a full spectrum of 90 essential nutrients - including minerals in a highly absorbable form, amino acids, essential fatty acids and vitamins.
The antioxidant selenium along with antioxidant vitamins A, C and E have demonstrated anti-cancer properties.
Cellulite – cellulite develops when the connective tissues between the fat cell chambers and between the chambers and the skin become thin and weakened and the elastic fibres that give the connective tissue strength are also weakened. Weight gain is one reason for cellulite, but it happens to very slim women too. Reducing the appearance of cellulite is all about improving the circulation of blood to the affected areas, reducing the size of the fat cells and improving the strength of the connective tissue.
Exercise, plenty of water, detoxification (you can try doing a mineral wrap at home – you need wide elastic bandages soaked in warm water with plant colloidal mineral solution, covered by a layer of plastic to help you sweat out the toxins) and womens health supplements such as a good mineral, vitamin and essential fatty acid supplement will assist.
PMS – Premenstrual syndrome - some very significant studies have proven that supplementing with calcium can reduce the symptoms of PMS. Magnesium has also shown to be lacking or very low in women with PMS – a good source of this is chocolate – which may explain the chocolate cravings we sometimes have! (There are other ways to get magnesium, not just by eating chocolate!).
Women’s health supplements for PMS should include these minerals along with Vitamin E, herbs such as Black Cohosh and essential fatty acids.
Menopause – Menopause is a natural stage in a woman’s life where the ovaries gradually stop producing estrogen and progesterone. The symptoms of menopause vary from person to person however it is commonly characterized by hot flashes and night sweats as well as a range of symptoms such as mood swings, fatigue, insomnia and weight gain.
Osteoporosis can develop more rapidly as a result of the loss of estrogen. Womens health supplements particularly with calcium, magnesium and vitamin D can be of help and herbs such as ‘black cohosh’ can help with the night sweats and other symptoms.
A diet high in essential fatty acids, low in saturated fat and the elimination of bad fats, along with plenty of green leafy vegetables, meat, fish, eggs and exercise, will make this a smoother transition.
Fertility and Pregnancy – a great deal of positive research surrounds the affects of taking womens health supplements during pregnancy. Supplementing with Folic acid during pregnancy is now recognized as helping to protect babies from neural tube defects; recent studies also indicate it may help prevent Down’s Syndrome.
Other supplements including selenium have been linked to reduced complications with pregnancy, while taking increased amounts of omega three fish oils may prevent asthma and improve brain development and learning in offspring. During pregnancy you have to take in nutrients for ‘two’ and women frequently suffer from poor nutrition; an example of a mineral deficiency is cravings during pregnancy.
For those considering pregnancy, recent pilot studies have proven the value of nutrient supplements to improve fertility. This can be easily resolved by giving the body what it needs and womens health supplements containing all 90 essential nutrients including Selenium are the best answer.
Varicose Veins – Varicose veins occur when the valves in your veins malfunction and when your veins lose their elasticity. Varicose veins occur mostly in women between the ages of 30 and 70. Hormonal changes during pregnancy, premenstruation and menopause may be a risk factor as female hormones tend to relax the vein walls. Exercise, weight control, elevating your legs periodically, avoiding long periods of sitting cross legged or standing for long periods of time as well as wearing low heels (makes the calves work harder) can help with circulation.
For womens health supplements, colloidal copper in plant derived minerals and certain antioxidant nutrients found in grape seed extract may assist in repairing the elastic fibres of the veins from within.
Heart Disease – affects three times more women than cancer and is the number one cause of death for all women. To reduce your risk of heart disease you need a diet high in fiber, green leafy vegetables and unsaturated fat (fish oil, flax seed oil); also eliminate the bad fats such as fried foods and margarine. Womens health supplements high in antioxidants such as selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E, minerals and essential fatty acids along with plenty of exercise and diet will protect the heart and keep you healthy.
High Cholesterol – high cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease and you need to eliminate the ‘bad’ fats from the diet and consume more of the good’ fats. An essential fatty acid supplement rich in omega 3 fish oil is very effective at reducing cholesterol in addition to antioxidant vitamins and highly absorbable plant derived minerals - all found in the 90 Essential Nutrients.
High Blood Pressure - Dietary and lifestyle changes are very important. Eliminate smoking, alcohol, caffeine and sugar. Consume a high fiber diet with plenty of green leafy vegetables and reduce your weight if you are overweight. Supplement with 90 essential nutrients including the plant derived colloidal calcium and other minerals, liquid calcium, CO-Q10 (coenzyme Q-10), essential fatty acids and lecithin. Herbs such as European Hawthorn also help.
Fatigue – womens health supplements should include all 90 essential nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids – this will ensure you have no nutritional deficiencies and will help with fatigue.
Health supplements with chromium can help regulate low blood sugar which can make you feel tired.
Nails – healthy nails are important for a woman’s appearance, but more importantly they are good indicators of a nutritional deficiency. White spots can indicate a zinc deficiency; brittle nails can be a sign of a protein deficiency and ridges in the nails an indicator of calcium or iron deficiency. Womens health supplements including gelatin, liquid minerals, amino acids, vitamins and essential fatty acids found in all the 90 essential nutrients, will assist with repair.
Skin – eliminating fried foods, sugar and bad fats from your diet is as important as good nutrition and plenty of water. Essential fatty acids from a natural source or in womens health supplements are a must. Vitamins and minerals are also important and will assist with a number of conditions such as acne, psoriasis, age spots and dermatitis.
Sports - If you train or exercise frequently and you sweat then you need to supplement with a good liquid mineral and multivitamin product to replace everything you're sweating out. If you don't then you're setting yourself up for serious health problems such as heart disease, joint problems, low energy and chronic aches and pains. You have to replace all those vital minerals you are sweating out while exercising. According to the Centers for Disease Control over 100,000 men, women and children die every year (in the US alone) during and immediately after exercise. Almost without doubt because they never replaced all the minerals, trace minerals, electrolytes and vitamins lost through strenuous activity.
Look for good sports energy drinks that are completely natural and contain a healthy mix of vitamins, minerals, protein, natural sugars, and herbs that will help keep you healthy while you exercise.
Weight Loss - A good weight loss plan involves eliminating bad foods such as refined and processed sugary foods, margarine, fried foods, caffeine and soft (fizzy) drinks. It also involves a good diet with plenty of protein, green leafy vegetables and complex carbohydrates and water. Womens health supplements that have a good source of minerals, vitamins, amino acids and essential fatty acids which ensure you get adequate nutrition and stop you getting the ‘munchies’. An organised and fun exercise program is essential.
Bones and Joints - Bone and joint diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis involve a complex of nutritional deficiencies which can be prevented and reversed if you follow a light exercise plan, implement a healthy diet, eliminate all the bad foods – particularly soft drinks and bad fats (fried foods and margarine especially) and use natural supplements to help maintain and repair your body. Womens health supplements containing all 90 essential nutrients as well as specific bone and joint supplements, such as CM Cream, for natural, rapid and very effective pain relief are fundamental to a return to normal health.
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Friday, 4 December 2009
Natural Acne Remedies
Would you knowingly put toxic products on your face. I didn't think so. There is a very good argument for opting for natural acne remedies every time. Many acne products contain something called Benzoyl peroxide which was first developed and used in the 1920's. Benzoyl peroxide has shown in research to cause dryness and irritation although this does not normally show until after about a week. Some people may have a more severe reaction.and can suffer from burning, itching, and possible swelling. this does not seem appropriate as we are trying to clear the skin, not inflame it.
Glycolic acid is another ingredient which can be found in acne treatments often used in skin peel is known to be as strong irritant. The top layer of skin is not the problem, the bacteria actually inside the pores is, so peeling will not eliminate the basic problem causing acne. After using peeling products the skin is often extremely red, rather like a severe case of sunburn.
Diet, stress, unclean skin or hormonal imbalances can all lead to acne. For ages people have turned towards natural acne remedies as a way to safely and easily treat this skin condition. It stands to reason that if stress can cause acne, if you relieve some of that stress; it will help clear the acne up, too. Although we think of acne and problem skin as modern afflictions, a look back in time disproves this. "A Book of Fruits and Flowers," published in England four centuries ago, includes a home remedy for pimples. The main ingredient of the remedy is lemon. Known as an astringent, and so good for closing the pores, lemon juice can also be used directly on pimples, either neat or diluted for sensitive skin, to help dry them out.
Benefit 1 - Through using a natural herbal remedy for treating acne you are providing a way that restores the balance of hormones within the body. Even where the hormone balance does not fluctuate that greatly in a person they will find it helps to prevent the possibility of an outbreak of acne.
Benefit 2 - Most of the herbal treatments for dealing with acne are ones that contain properties that help with fighting the underlying causes of the problem. In many cases with over the counter cures these are designed to help treat what you see. As the herbal natural acne remedies contain anti inflammatory and anti bacterial properties they can fight what cannot be seen by you. What works in curing acne are homeopathy substances: sulphur ointment or lotion and kali bhromium, to name a few. For these natural treatments to work well you need to combine them with an adequate diet and the suggested daily water intake (7-8 glasses a day). If the natural acne remedies are hindered in any way they won't perform their intended task at full capacity. For these proven solutions to work, one must change his/her eating habits. No more oil and fat rich foods, iodine, junk-foods or refined sugars.
Glycolic acid is another ingredient which can be found in acne treatments often used in skin peel is known to be as strong irritant. The top layer of skin is not the problem, the bacteria actually inside the pores is, so peeling will not eliminate the basic problem causing acne. After using peeling products the skin is often extremely red, rather like a severe case of sunburn.
Diet, stress, unclean skin or hormonal imbalances can all lead to acne. For ages people have turned towards natural acne remedies as a way to safely and easily treat this skin condition. It stands to reason that if stress can cause acne, if you relieve some of that stress; it will help clear the acne up, too. Although we think of acne and problem skin as modern afflictions, a look back in time disproves this. "A Book of Fruits and Flowers," published in England four centuries ago, includes a home remedy for pimples. The main ingredient of the remedy is lemon. Known as an astringent, and so good for closing the pores, lemon juice can also be used directly on pimples, either neat or diluted for sensitive skin, to help dry them out.
Benefit 1 - Through using a natural herbal remedy for treating acne you are providing a way that restores the balance of hormones within the body. Even where the hormone balance does not fluctuate that greatly in a person they will find it helps to prevent the possibility of an outbreak of acne.
Benefit 2 - Most of the herbal treatments for dealing with acne are ones that contain properties that help with fighting the underlying causes of the problem. In many cases with over the counter cures these are designed to help treat what you see. As the herbal natural acne remedies contain anti inflammatory and anti bacterial properties they can fight what cannot be seen by you. What works in curing acne are homeopathy substances: sulphur ointment or lotion and kali bhromium, to name a few. For these natural treatments to work well you need to combine them with an adequate diet and the suggested daily water intake (7-8 glasses a day). If the natural acne remedies are hindered in any way they won't perform their intended task at full capacity. For these proven solutions to work, one must change his/her eating habits. No more oil and fat rich foods, iodine, junk-foods or refined sugars.
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